The opinion in support of the decision being entered today was not written
for publication and is not binding precedent of the Board.
Paper No. 27
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
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BEFORE THE BOARD OF PATENT APPEALS
AND INTERFERENCES
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Ex parte IWAO KAWAMURA, RYOUMA SUZUKI, KAZUHIRO MURAKAMI, NAOKI
KIYOHARA, KENSUKE IZUMA, KIYOKAZU NAMEKATA, TATSUO FUJIMURA,
MITSUHARU TAKIZAWA and KEIKO NAZUKA
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Appeal No. 2003-1514
Application No. 09/180,038
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ON BRIEF
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Before STAAB, MCQUADE and BAHR, Administrative Patent Judges.
BAHR, Administrative Patent Judge.
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on appeal from the examiner's final rejection of claims 1-151,
which are all of the claims pending in this application.
BACKGROUND
1 As explained on pages 2 and 3 of the answer (Paper No. 18), the examiner has renumbered the
claim originally numbered by appellants as claim 16 to claim 15 pursuant to 37 CFR § 1.126. Thus, in
accordance with the examiner’s numbering, the claim referred to by appellants in their brief as claim 16 is
referred to herein as claim 15.
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